The explosive finale of The Cloister Series.Trapped.Beaten.Broken.Adam destroyed himself to save me. At first, I doubt if I have the strength to go on. But with every second that passes, I seethe and curse the Prophet. My time as a Maiden is over. I refuse to be a toy in his game any longer. But there’s always more ways for the Prophet to get to me, to use me, and to keep me under his influence. … me under his influence. Will I be strong enough to break free?
more
Anti-heros, murder, mayhem, revenge…and a love story… This book has it all!
The Church, the whole Cloister series, left me breathless. I truly didn’t know how it was going to end or who was going to make it out alive. For me, that’s a testament to Celia Aaron and her ability to keep her readers on the edge of their seat.
Delilah and Adam’s story is raw and graphic with unexpected touches of humor. It had me cringing and swearing, with an occasional smile at the most unlikely scenes.
Delilah is a strong, strong character. Both she and Adam evolve through the series…they’re battered but not quite broken, pushed to the limits of everything imaginable. The Church is an epic 5 star conclusion to their story.
I am still processing the story…So many thoughts are running through my mind.
What a roller coaster of a ride….
The third book perfectly wraps up The Cloister Trilogy.
Insanity, hatred, envy and greed meet vengeance, kindness and love. Fighting for freedom, looking for truth! Trying to save the innocent.
You sit on pins and needles but at the same time you can’t help but get emotional!
You become addicted, to finally getting to the bottom and the need to finish is like a drug to a junkie.
My eyes devoured every single word. I was so hungry for the end. I was thirsty to help those characters destroy the hell out of Heavenly.
What can I say. I am addicted to Celia Aaron’s wickedness! She writes like no other.
I loved EVERY.SINGLE.THING in this book. I fell in love with Adam and Delilah. I also came to love the damaged and weak heart of Noah. It was torture to read and know you can’t help them. I wanted to invoke revenge on Grace and all those torturers myself.
The story is insanely twisted, not anything you can predict. Such a great read which keeps you high all the time.
This series has it all and The Church is the epic conclusion.
I was emotionally obliterated with the final events of book 2 (The Prophet) and had no idea how this author was going to resurrect this story or these characters but I can honestly say this is one of the best series I’ve read this year.
I’m not gonna lie, there was some really dark and depraved behavior displayed in this story, but in the end I got the closure I craved and these characters all received a fitting end. I’m actually a little sad to think it’s over, that’s how good it is!
I highly recommend you don’t miss this series…and the good news?! The Church is the final installment, no cliffies if you hate them!
Talk about a book that will leave you raw from the inside out. This was a fantastic conclusion to this soul wrenching trilogy. Love love love it!!!!
I wasn’t sure how the author would end the book. There was so much going on with different fractions all with their own agenda.
It kept me guessing until the end.
4.5 stars
Great end to a great trilogy. P.S. spoiler alert!
“And now I intend to show them just what their devotion to a false idol is worth.”
I am a bit sad to see Emily and Adam’s story end but happy it got a HEA. It just took a few scars and some people to die to get to it.
I’m so happy Noah ended up acting like Adam. My little Noah finally came to his senses.
“It’s amazing to me that I believed in him for as long as I did.”
The Prophet showed what happens to a man in power when everything starts to crash. I was very glad on how he met his end. So glad. Thank you Aaron on that one but could you have killed Grace it a similar fashion? She died to quick for my liking.
I’m moving on to another Aaron book after this but I need a few minutes to recuperate and get into the mind set of starting a new book. Maybe the next one will be my first five star of the year.
The Church is the final of this wonderful series. We start where The Prophet ended. Aaron is in a bad way and Emily/Delilah is just trying to survive now not knowing if Aaron will live or die.
Noah has to finally come to terms with his family and what happened to Georgia. Is Noah going to grow up and finally going to become what he should? Or will he go down with the church his father grew?
Adam and Emily have grown throughout these books. Their love is epic and no matter what is thrown at them they overcome it. Emily is strong and knows life is worth fighting for. I loved that. She is a such a wonderful character. Adam has grown into such a great man and character. I wasn’t too sure of him in the beginning but I LOVE him. He has shown his true colors throughout this whole series and comes out the end as one of the great heroes.
If you read one series this year, make it this one!
Hot damn… The Church concluded everything just right. There were so many moving parts to this story… I didn’t know who was going to make it. I didn’t know who was going to meet their Maker. I was on edge throughout most of the story. I was flipping those pages like my life depended on it. Delilah, Adam, and Noah were fighting am evil that is bigger than them. I was prayering and just like the characters I didn’t know if my prayers were going to be answered. This series… I’m shaking my head and smiling. I can’t believe half of what I read. I loved every crazy minute of it. I would read it all over again.
Fantastic conclusion to this dark and twisted trilogy. Twist and turns will keep you guessing until the end. A definite roller coaster ride with all the feels! I highly recommend this this read but must read in order. Narration was amazing!!!
3.5 stars
“I’m not after closure anymore. I’m after blood.”
To be honest, The Church was the closure I expected and yet it wasn’t. I’m a little disappointed as the first two books were really great. So I expected something big for the closure. And that’s the things with expectations, you most likely end up disappointed. I’m not sure why, but I just didn’t feel the book like I did the others.
“I’m done being a Maiden, done pretending to believe in the Prophet. I will fight and claw and kill if I have to.”
Nevertheless I had a good time reading this book. With The Church Celia took some twists and turns you’ll never see coming. Nothing is easy in Heavenly and certainly your freedom comes at a price. As the whole trilogy, this book will test your boundaries on many levels.
“You can wear any color under the sun. No hiding. Shine like you’r supposed to.”
Although the last part in The Cloister trilogy is action packed and written in different POVs, I’m n0t fully convinced on how everything went down. I have a lot of open questions.
Furthermore I wished for more of Adam’s and Delilah’s connection and love. IMO this got a little lost in The Church.
“”I love you.” He closes his eyes, as if relishing the words. “Every time you say that, it’s hard to believe. But, because you’re the one saying it, I always believe.””
If you are into dark romance and have a thing for the cult setting, this trilogy is definitely your thing! My overall rating for The Cloister trilogy: 4.5 stars
HOLY wicked web of juicy drama! I could not put this book down. Ms. Aaron definitely went to the nth degree with the Cloister Series. She edges that boundary and has shocked me that she went to that level. I like seeing this shadier more degenerative side of her. It makes my dark heart sing to read about such debauched morals and unscrupulous evils.
Heavenly is not the celestial and divine cloister that the Prophet projects it to be. While fighting for freedom and looking for truths, love and acceptance is found amidst the chaos and sinister evils. I will tell you that Adam and Delilah find their HEA, but the events that happen before they get to that point is ominous and menacing. There was no better conclusion for this hellish and damnable trilogy.
4* Burn It To The Ground Stars
Someone pass me the painkillers please – I’ve got a massive book hangover after reading this
Action, violence, lies, plots, terror, threats, secrets, murder, mayhem. I don’t know how Celia Aaron packed so much into this last book but every page held something that either battered your heart or lifted your soul. It’s one of those books that is so amazing you can’t ever do it justice in a review and you struggle for what to say without giving away spoilers.
I read The Maiden and whilst I liked it, I was left with too many questions. I read The Prophet and most of these questions were answered, along with other questions I didn’t even realise I had. Reading The Prophet then made me reassess my evaluation of The Maiden , the two books together moved up to a rating of ‘really good’. You need to read BOTH of these books in order to read The Church , which is one of the most amazing reads EVER. There is just so much that happens in this book and all of it unpredictable and just, **wow**.
We left Adam strung up on (and nailed to) a cross. We left Delilah burning with a need for vengeance. We left Heavenly Ministries desperate to know how the story would not only continue but be resolved. Who are the good guys, who are the bad guys, who is just downright crazy cakes? You will NOT be disappointed at all, so many twists, so many surprises, so many shocks. Even though we’d thrown wild guesses and I-really-hope-that’s out there, we were only a smidge close on most things and nowhere near on others. You will also be left with one very nicely bated loose end with a character that was a hot topic of conversation over in the Dark Erotica readers group. I can’t wait for that story!
I didn’t think I could love Adam or Emily (Delilah) more but I was wrong. I wasn’t sure about Noah or Grace, I almost forgave one of them for their errors until they twisted the knife and revealed what a truly soulless monster they were. Emily’s mum – THAT came out of left field and what a truly unexpected shocker. Chastity and Jez, broken so much more than we ever imagined. Friends, allies and supposed allies in places you would never imagine. Enemies closer than you ever thought.
If there is a series of books that should be top of your “must read” list this year, then this is it. It’s dark, it’s painful, it’s twisted beyond belief and quite simply one of the best books I’ve read this year.
This was a very great book. It takes you on an emotional roller coaster ride. This book is intense and has you hooked from the very first page until the end. The characters are amazing and it has a great story line.
This was an action packed ending to this twisted series. The ending really had my heart pounding and I was engrossed. Questions were answered and I found my self unable to stop when it came to figuring out how it was going to end with lives still intact. It was a bumpy road but I’m glad that there was a HEA.
Like in the last book I couldn’t feel their relationship. The fact that they didn’t really get to know each other, share their hopes, dreams, fears, past and everything in between, even share a meal…. it made the love unbelievable to me. I needed more to really see that love bloom. I understand that their situation was a lot different then most romance but all I can think is that it was a love out of circumstance.
It’s hard to review the last book in trilogies. I’m worried that I could spoil anything that could make an impact so I will just say that while it might not have be my thing when it came to the religious aspect, I did enjoy it. It might not have been 100% for me but I’m sure there are a lot of readers who love it and can connect. 3 stars #2OCCJD
Celia Aaron completely annihilated the finale to this fecked up trilogy. She gave us so much more than a dark and twisted read, she gave us the best closure to the Heavenly. Celia Aaron makes the dark side inside of you come out to play and jump for joy with her depraved and perverted words. We’ve been built up into this amazing climax with The Maiden and The Prophet. The Church didn’t disappoint. I felt like I held my breath throughout the entire book. I was scared, bloodthirsty, impatient, and so much more while going through this. I felt as if I was Emily and fighting for my life and vengeance. The writing was that spellbinding. It wraps around you and makes you feel every single fear, shame, and hope that Emily went through.
The Church ends up being three stories woven into one huge interconnected hell. Each new perspective brings so much clarity to the characters we’ve loved and the ones we’ve hated. I didn’t think I could have hated Grace any more than I already did, I was wrong. I didn’t think I could love Adam any more than I did, I was wrong. Same with Emily and Noah. Celia Aaron has cemented herself as a go to dark author for me. I am waiting on pins and needles to see what more she will come up with!
I’m wowed-I’m honestly speechless while i try and write this review. Celia Aaron always does a magnificent job of spoiling her readers, but this is an indulgence of epic proportions. This series has been an absolute wild ride, one that’s not even comparable to anything I’ve ever read before- I can’t even begin to describe how much you need this series in your life!
The Church picks up right where book 2 left off-and my heart broke all over again. I knew what I hoped to happen for book three, but this surpassed everything I could ever imagine. I don’t want to give away any spoilers, but I do have to applaud the amount we got in Noah’s point of view. (I’ll be over here hoping for some kind of novel for him because I love the poor guy so much) ADAM, my dear, dear Adam. He had some pretty big plans himself, but a lot of this book is him being the voice of reason for all these people that were hurt by his father. He feels he’s going to lose Emily, because quite frankly they’re pretty doomed because just about everything that could go wrong between them does.
I loved that he had this huge will to stay alive, and it was pretty much all for Emily. She herself had so much tenacity, and I loved how savage she became.
This book is pretty graphic, and I loved every second of it. It’s not overdone, it’s sick and twisted but written in such a sophisticated way. Now that this series is finished I can absolutely say with finality that this is the best series of 2018. Drop what you’re doing immediately and start the Cloister series today! – By Victoria
“I’m not after closure anymore. I’m after Blood.”
What a fuckin ending!!!!!!!!
Seriously, this has got to be the best, most deserved ending for everyone I have ever read!
I was on my toes for the majority and my heart was in my throat.
To avoid any hint of a spoiler I’m not going to talon about the books content. Just know you NEED to read this.
Prepare yourself for the most heart stopping rollercoaster ride ever!!!!!!!
And be prepared to love every single minute of it!
I found this to be a very, very well written story and characters I’d give it 5 stars, BUT…it is so very, very dark (as advertised)! For me, there just wasn’t enough light in this last book, or any in the first two, to balance out so much horrific darkness. Thank you for the promised redemption and closure!! It will be a very long while before I venture into such darkness again.
An explosive and impassioned ending to a divinely dark series!
The Church picks up where we left off in The Prophet
Adam has sacrificed himself in an attempt to protect the one thing that brings light to his darkness – Delilah
As it looks his sacrifice may be for naught as Delilah has no choice but to complete the marriage that may end her life
This is such a twisted and Oh He!! no read
I was actually nervous to read this one – book two had left me so distraught I was terrified of what was going to happen – and I was right to be fearful –
I thought the darkness was absolute in book two, oh how wrong I was – it just became pitch
This is a very dark and very taboo series -there are a few characters who get their HEA – and some who do not
Quite a few get their comeuppance
Smooth plot line from book one all the way through –
Excellent character development both with the main and the supporting (I actually hope a couple of the secondary characters get their own stories)
Dark overall tone with moments of light buried within
If you enjoy the darker side of suspense then this is a must read series
This series was amazing!! Would have liked a longer epilogue , but I still would highly recommend these books for a great reading experience! I would love to read a book about Noah!